New York City Coun­cil has filed a law­suit re­quest­ing a tem­po­rary re­strain­ing or­der (TRO) and a pre­lim­i­nary in­junc­tion against May­or Er­ic Adams’ Ex­ec­u­tive Or­der 50 al­low­ing the Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE) agency to op­er­ate an of­fice on Rik­ers Is­land Cor­rec­tion­al Fa­cil­i­ty that would fa­cil­i­tate the de­por­ta­tion of Caribbean and oth­er im­mi­grants.

The ex­ec­u­tive or­der was is­sued by First Deputy May­or Randy Mas­tro on April 8.

The law­suit, filed on Tues­day, con­tends that the ex­ec­u­tive or­der is “un­law­ful, taint­ed by the con­flict of in­ter­est cre­at­ed by the cor­rupt bar­gain the may­or en­tered in­to – his per­son­al free­dom in ex­change for an ICE of­fice.

“The law is clear that the may­or is un­able to cure that con­flict of in­ter­est sim­ply by del­e­gat­ing his au­thor­i­ty to open an ICE of­fice to Deputy May­or Mas­tro,” it says.

In seek­ing an im­me­di­ate halt of any as­so­ci­at­ed ac­tiv­i­ty, the law­suit out­lines how the “un­law­ful ac­tion” would un­der­mine pub­lic safe­ty in New York City by erod­ing trust be­tween lo­cal gov­ern­ment, in­clud­ing lo­cal law en­force­ment and New York­ers.

It al­so ar­gues that the may­or nev­er del­e­gat­ed the spec­i­fied du­ty to Mas­tro, as re­quired by the City Char­ter.

“Once again, this City Coun­cil is stand­ing firm to pro­tect the rights and safe­ty of all New York­ers against at­tacks by the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion—be­cause the city’s may­or won’t stop plac­ing his own per­son­al in­ter­ests ahead of the peo­ple of our city,” said Speak­er Adri­enne Adams, a can­di­date for May­or of the City of New York in June’s De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pri­ma­ry.

“May­or Er­ic Adams clear­ly in­di­cat­ed his in­ten­tion for this ex­ec­u­tive or­der when the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion at­tempt­ed to dis­miss his cor­rup­tion case in what pros­e­cu­tors and Judge Ho saw as a quid pro quo.

“The may­or has com­pro­mised our city’s sov­er­eign­ty and is now threat­en­ing the safe­ty of all New York­ers, which is why we are fil­ing this law­suit to halt his il­le­gal or­der that he shame­less­ly pre­viewed on the Fox News couch with Tom Homan,” she added. “When New York­ers are afraid of co­op­er­at­ing with our city’s own po­lice, and dis­cour­aged from re­port­ing crime and seek­ing help, it makes every­one in our city less safe.

The Coun­cil not­ed that Fed­er­al Judge Dale Ho, who de­clined to im­me­di­ate­ly dis­miss the case and sought in­de­pen­dent ar­gu­ments, in­di­cat­ed that “Every­thing here smacks of a bar­gain: dis­missal of the in­dict­ment in ex­change for im­mi­gra­tion pol­i­cy con­ces­sions.”

Speak­er Adri­enne Adams and the Coun­cil are do­ing ex­act­ly what this mo­ment de­mands: stand­ing up for New York­ers against a may­or fail­ing to be ac­count­able to the peo­ple of our city,” she added.

An­oth­er Coun­cil Mem­ber Alexa Avilés, chair of the Com­mit­tee on Im­mi­gra­tion, said that, “Turn­ing Rik­ers in­to an out­post for the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s ex­treme agen­da has noth­ing to do with pro­tect­ing New York­ers and every­thing to do with the may­or pro­tect­ing him­self.

Last Thurs­day, Caribbean and oth­er im­mi­gra­tion ad­vo­cates and New York City leg­is­la­tors ral­lied against Adams’ an­nounce­ment re­gard­ing the open­ing

of an ICE of­fice on Rik­ers Is­land.

New York Im­mi­gra­tion Coali­tion (NY­IC), Make the Road Ac­tion, Bronx De­fend­ers, the Im­mi­grant De­fense Project, and the Katal Cen­ter for Eq­ui­ty, Health and Jus­tice joined New York City leg­is­la­tors, Caribbean and oth­er im­mi­grants, and peo­ple di­rect­ly im­pact­ed by de­ten­tion at Rik­ers Is­land in hold­ing a ral­ly and press con­fer­ence out­side City Hall in low­er

Man­hat­tan in con­demn­ing the ex­ec­u­tive or­der is­sued by the may­or.

Mu­rad Awawdeh, NY­IC’s pres­i­dent and CEO, said that ICE has not op­er­at­ed at Rik­ers Is­land since 2014, when Lo­cal Law 58 was en­act­ed.

The may­or’s Ex­ec­u­tive Or­der 50 notes that Rik­ers Is­land is the site of cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the De­part­ment of Cor­rec­tions (DOC) and cur­rent­ly hous­es mem­bers and as­so­ciates of des­ig­nat­ed ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions among oth­er in­di­vid­u­als in­car­cer­at­ed there.